On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 07:54 -0400, John Ackley wrote: > Can anyone recommend any debugging tools or techniques?
If it's important for this program to be running all the time, you should add it to you init(8) rc files. Zombies happen for two reasons. The first it that it is waiting for its parent to harvest its status code. If its parent is already dead, then init(8) has became its parent and it harvests the status code immediately. This does not seem to be your problem. The second reason is that the process is caught in a device driver. The device driver has a bug in it and is not exiting. To fix this problem: determine which device driver it is; download the source code for it; fix the bug. Or contact the device driver writers at Red Hat and hope they're willing to help. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
